Backend Engineer (Implementations)

Direct hire, permanent. Austin, TX or Remote (US).

About The Client

An early-stage, well-funded enterprise software company building a platform that connects and automates back-office systems for finance, HR, and operations teams. The founding engineering team is small and hands-on, with the AI product direction still being actively shaped.

About the Role

This platform combines configurable integration pipelines with applied AI to eliminate manual data work across a company's back-office systems. You'll join the founding engineering team to help scale the integration layer, support complex customer implementations, and shape how AI gets applied across the product.

Responsibilities

• Support integration requirements across major ERP, HRIS, and payroll platforms
• Contribute to architecture and roadmap discussions shaping the company's core AI product
• Write production-ready code built to handle enterprise-scale workloads
• Own features end-to-end: design, build, test, and deploy

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience primarily with Ruby on Rails
• Comfortable working through ambiguity in a fast-moving startup environment
• Strong communicator, comfortable working directly with customers
• Experience building integrations across multiple API types, including REST, SOAP, JSON-RPC, and flat-file formats

Nice to Haves

• Familiarity with building agentic AI systems
• Experience with enterprise SaaS or B2B integrations and HR/Payroll systems

Please note we are unable to offer employer sponsorship.

Pay

$150,000 – $180,000 base salary + equity